She won my heart when she first pronounced Smaug correctly.

When Bilbo puts on the Ring, it gives him the ability to understand the spiders.

The guy that plays King Thandruil is the best depiction of an elf ever

Also remember no one suspects the ring Bilbo found is Sauron's ring yet. They don't know it for sure until the Lord of the Rings when Gandalf throws it in the fire to see if the writing appears. But you can already see the negative effect on Bilbo as he is lying to hid its existence and how he mercilessly killed the non-spider creature he thought was trying to get the ring on the forest floor..

Dwarves have a complicated history with all other races and much of it is because they were somewhat alien to the world compared to Elves and Dwarves as they were made my Aule, not Eru illuvatar himself. They are generally thought of as greedy and avaricious and rightly so to a degree. It was a group of Dwarves that killed the very first elf who ever awakened, Elu Thingol, over a cursed necklace that they had been hired to place a Silmaril in. They lied about what happened later to their dwarven kin and caused a war

Fun fact: Bilbo told the whole crew about the ring in the books. Nobody thought it was suspicious and considered it to be normal as there were many magical rings that existed. Also, they left out a huge part about the Elves from the books on how the Elves caught the Dwarves and the fact that the Dwarves spent weeks in Mirkwood.

At 14:02 How Could you pass the Gimli's moment.. Legolas asked the one of dwarfes (Gloin) who is man at this picture.. He said that's my lad Gimli... I wish you could show us your reaction of it :'((

I think it’s worth knowing there are different “types” of Elves. It that might clear up some future questions if you wonder why Thranduil being referred to as King and perhaps not seeming as graceful and noble as Galadriel or Elrond. I think a good analogy comparing them to the “types” of the Men in the LOTR trilogy, is that Galadriel is like Aragorn, Elrond is like Faramir, and Thranduil is like Theoden when it comes to bloodlines. The destiny of the Elves was to accept the call of the gods to the Undying Lands in the west across the sea. Some made it, and actually lived and learned and sung with the gods in their own land, but others decided to stay in Middle Earth. - Thranduil is an ancestor of a group that stayed in Middle Earth and claimed a kingdom as their own. They are aware of the gods and their eventual call, but chose to stay. He’s kinda like Theoden… just sorta there lol - Elrond is a direct descendant of someone who once lived in the West, and Tolkien being the lover of bloodlines, gave a bit of genetic nobility to those who are descended from Elves that completed the journey. He has no Royal blood, but he has the rank and stature to be called a Lord. Maybe like Boromir or Faramir metaphorically. - Galadriel was actually born in the West. She lived with the gods. She learned from the gods, eventually journeying back to Middle Earth for various reasons. This is why she literally glows, striking all who gaze upon her with a true sense of awe. She is literally radiating the light of Two Trees she gazed upon that once lit the world, and has great wisdom and magical knowledge like foresight. She’s kinda like your Aragorn-noble bloodline and such. /endrant Cheers!

The place gandalf went to, the high fells, is where the men of the north buried the remains of the Witch-King of Angmar and the other 8 nazgul after the first defeat of Sauron. The same witch king from the lord of the rings. Hes been resurrected by the necromancer along with the others.

20:57 I think Tauriel and Legolas weren't in the books but Legolas is from there and that elven kings is his father.

Remember the battle at the very beginning of The Lord of the Rings, where Sauron was defeated? He wasn't killed - - he's an immortal spirit. He was weakened, however, and his spirit fled into the forest, where he gradually regained strength and became the Necromancer. The sub-plot of this movie trilogy is to verify that the Necromancer is in fact Sauron regaining his old power, and what to do about it.

Did you notice that Gandalf used the same trick on Beorn that he pulled on Bilbo - - send the dwarves a few at a time to trick him into offering hospitality?

Can’t believe you missed the bit where Legolas asks Gloin about the picture he carries and he says “that’s mah wee lad.. Gimli”… who we all know eventually grows up to be Legolas’s best friend in the LoTR.

Hi Stef enjoyable reaction as always, the tombs that Gandalf went to is were the nine kings were buried that became the black riders that's why Gandalf told Radagast that his name was forgotten and he would only be known by a number one of nine, and they serve only one master Sauron and that's who has returned to the old fortress of Dol Guldur and is rebuilding his forces from there, also Bolg is the offspring of Azog the defiler.

The dwarves in the order they are introduced at Bag End. Dwalin, Balin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bofur, Bifur, Bombur, and of course, Thorin. 🙂

YOU are so funny Stef! You wonder aloud is "There is some way to change your scent?" and the very next scene shows Bard dumping fish of the barrels of dwarves... THAT's one way for sure to change one's scent!!!

You have to consider the ring as a character in itself. It actually grows and shrinks if it doesnt like the wearer. This is why Isildur was shot by an arrow while possessing the ring. It grew and fell off his finger at its first chance to escape back to its original owner.

17:17 because the movies came out in 3D, they did these sort of things a couple of times haha

Beorn could transform at will in the book. The mistrust for dwarves was caused by Sauron, not only through subterfuge, but the rings he gave them awoken the greed we see in the movies, the dragon sickness. Aside from an incident concerning a necklace (which inspired the part in the movies), dwarves have only ever fought with orcs. They even got along well with elves, despite how they act towards each other, as there's a reason the door to Moria in the Fellowship of the Ring opened with the elvish word for friend.

Both beorn and thranduel referred to dwarf greed. That's at least part of the dislike of dwarves. And both beorn and elrond referred to dwarves not caring about others.

If nobody has mentioned, one of the dwarves in the company is actually Gimli from Lord of the Ring's father. It's not shown in the reaction, but in the film when legolas is interrogating the dwarves in the forest he looks at a picture and refers to the picture of Gimli as a troll (great foreshadowing of their tit for tat relationship haha) and Gimli's father (Gloin) replies "That's my wee lad, Gimli"

It is suspected that Sauron is back....in the guise of 'the Necromancer '. Though not confirmed until the fellowship of the Ring book.

I love seeing these videos you do an amazing job on all of them Hun. Also you're sooo adorable seeing you react to things happening is amazing 😍. Keep up the great work beautiful girl

The Dwarf kingdoms kept to themselves mostly, digging and building their mountain halls and mining precious metals and gems. They were voracious miners and dug into the mountains so deep that they disturbed demons of Morgoth. The Dwarfs were insanely wealthy and all the rest of middle earth was jealous.

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22:53 I think in the book it was just a normal sized arrow fired from a normal bow but I might have remembered wrong.

12:33 - this is one thing that the films never managed to get across - and, indeed, glossed over. Wearing the ring gives the wearer the ability to understand any language: so Sam, when he was carrying the ring in Shelob's Lair, could understand the orcs when they said "this fellow's not dead".

Hobbits are a lot more in tune with nature and some magic then normal humans. Think of them as like in between humans and elves or pixies. They LOVE nature which is why Bilbo can tell that the forest is “sick” also how he could tell when they were entering Rivendell.

2:47 I think Gandalf proposed this so that the Dragon would be slain and not becomme an asset to Sauron during the war of the ring.

I'm not a fan of the Hobbit trilogy but the bits with Smaug are epic!

6:24 Dwarves are disliked because of their greed and selfish nature. Also they like to pick a fight, as you might have noticed when you reached the final movie.

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Gandalf didn’t suspect the ring was the Ring of Power until he went to research it after Bilbo’s birthday party (as seen in LotR). Bilbo, of course, had no idea. It did cause him to age slower, which is why he changed so much between his 111 birthday and when Frodo saw Bilbo again at Rivendell.

Watching this in 3D and in High frame Rate was awesome!!! Bilbo can understand the spiders thru the ring

"I love the music, makes it feel like home" ❤

The elves of Mirkwood are Silvan elves. At some point Sindarin elves moved in and took control of the place. The rulers are Sindarin but the common people are Silvan. Nevertheless the Silvan population has adopted the customs and language of the Sindar. Forsaking their own Avarin tongue. It is a similar situation with Lothlorien.

A lot of people shit on and dislike these movies and admittedly nothing can rival the LOTR movies . 3 of the greatest movies of all time. That being said though I never understood the hate these movies got. I really enjoyed these movies . A lot of small details I really appreciated . First of all just being back in Middle Earth is magical, them showing the story Bilbo told in the beginning of LOTR about the trolls, the soundtrack is, again, one of the best movie soundtracks ever made and more so they do some tiny things that I absolutely love . Number 1. Anytime the ring is on screen the song thats always played in LOTR is played , the ring theme song if you will, and Number 2. at the end of the final hobbit movie when Thranduil tells Legolas to go look for Aragorn softly in the background the famous trio theme song plays in the background which only plays that 1 time through all of the hobbit movies and just brings you back to the LOTR story. It’s masterfully done. So yea. Nothing like the LOTR movies but still really great movies in my opinion

make your smell/scent different? change purfume? use scented oils? rub soil on your skin to hide it? etc

Dwarves are thought to be greedy and stubborn as Elrond said in the fellowship “the dwarves? They stay in their mountains, seeking riches, they care nothing for the troubles of others” They are known to kill forests as well

13:10...In this sort of predicament the Ring will find you (or someone more suitable). Oh and it's the Ring that makes Bilbo more susceptible to feeling magical stuff and it gives him the ability to understand the spiders.

Cannot wait for second Part...

I didn’t go over your head most of the tension between the elves and dwarfs are explained in the Silmarillion … over a necklace called the nouglomere basically dwarfs are greedy lol love the shirt btw 🙏❤️🙏 also your picking up the lore knowledge quiet well

The short version of the Elf-Dwarf feud is that there’s a lot of bad blood between them going back to the First Age of Middle Earth and given that Elves are immortal and Dwarves live for centuries, such grudges are remembered for a long time.

Things moving toward the camera was probably because the three Hobbit movies were filmed in 3D.

A lot of random at the camera stuff cuz it was 3D in theaters. It was pretty awesome in 3D

These are the prequel’s to the Lord of the rings

On to part 2! 😃

The reason the Dwarves are disliked/not trusted is their greed...and the fact that they keep to themselves and won't involve themselves in other people's plights. As branch of them, early on in the Silmarillion (book that covers the first and second age of Middle earth), they followed Sauron.

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Everyone's saying the Dwarves are disliked b/c they are greedy, but my suspicion is it's really because they fart a lot and tend to drink all the beer.

You had some questions about scent. As an outdoorsman and Appalachian (apple-at-chan) mountain man, if you spend about 3 days in the woods with no way to shower or bathe, you begin to pick up on synthetic scents like deodorant, cologne, perfume, aftershave and such. You can definitely tell when someone is doin laundry at a house nearby and also who is wearin freshly washed clothes. It's a lot like if you spend enough time on a ship, you can smell land and if you spend enough time on land, you can smell the sea. If you spend enough time away from humans.....you can smell humans. If you have the skills and physical altitudes, you can potentially be very dangerous to those who would be dangerous to you.

Bilbo can only understand the spiders because he's wearing the ring

Gandalf knows when people are lying to him 9/10 times.

Ok, here's a bit of a very simplified nutshell explanation on the disdain towards dwarfs. The dwarfs are kinda viewed as the red-headed step-children of the creator god. The tension with the dwarfs as a race has to do with how the were created. The creator God in Tolkien's world is Eru Illuvatar. Eru is directly responsible for the creation of his 'Children' races The Elves and Humans. Eru has a class of lower gods under him called the Valar. One of those gods, Aule The Smith, is the creator of the dwarf race. But they don't have free will or thought yet. They can only do what Aule commands them to do, kinda like robots. Only Eru has the power to create life with it's own free will. Aule later pleads with Eru for their continued existence and for them to have free will like Eru's other 'Children' the Elves and Humans. God Eru says sure but they won't enter the world until after Eru's other "Children' races of Elves and Humans enter the world. The tension comes about because the Elves know this fact about the dwarfs, that they aren't essentially created as an equal race. This is why they are generally looked down upon by Elves.

@stefsolari In the barrel chase, there's one point where an Orc sneaks up behind Legolas, and is about to stab him. Thorin, down in the river, notices and throws a sword at the Orc, saving Legolas. Also it was interesting that Legolas didn't notice being saved by Thorin. You didn't include your reaction to this and not sure if you noticed. There was a lot going on in that scene it was easy to miss.

Pizza deliverer: "Enjoy your meal" Me: "You too" This is similar to your: "It's lovely to see your beautiful faces today" 🤪😁 This reactions of yours bring so much joy, I love it! 👌 One thing often overlooked is the amount of Black Speech used in The Hobbit, way more compared to Lord of the Rings. I like that, sounds cool!

Thranduil and Legolas are High Elves, those who went to, or were born in, the western Lands aka Elvenhome or Valinor. Wood elves were born in Middle Earth and either did not wish to leave or balked at the western coasts and remained in MiddleEarth, never learning the higher arts including magic from the Valar and the Maiar. After the War of Wrath when the Valar overthrew Morgoth, Sauron's BOSS, Thranduil and many other High Elves crossed the Seas back to Middle Earth to aid both the remnants of the Noldor Elves and those Wood Elves. Thrabduil established his kingdom in this time, becoming King because of his wisdom and skills as a Leader. BTW, the Dragon's he referred to were the Great Dragon's, servants of Morgoth. Smaug is a lesser descendant of those wyrms. Smaller, less magical and more obsessed with wealth.

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Dwarves are also seen by the other races as "Greedy" for lack of a better term. The stones in the mountain, the king elf was talking about being interested in. That was another story that happened in the second age. Back when the king's wife was still alive, he had these precious elven stones he wanted made into a one-of-kind necklace for his wife and queen. Dwarves being the master craftsmen of middle earth, he went to them and made a deal to commission them to make it for him using these gems. When it was complete, the dwarf king changed payment... the dwarf king now wanted the remainder of the Elvin sacred stones as payment before he would hand over the necklace. When elves refused to hand over their sacred stones as payment, the dwarves kept the stones and necklace. When Elrond spoke of the Dwarves in LOTR part 1. He said "do we look to the Dwarves? They dig greedily in their caves caring only of their riches... they care nothing about the concerns of the other races." Even Saloman the White spoke of the dwarves digging too deep in Kazadoom, wakening the Balrog. There are other happenings between dwarves and the other races that enforced the idea that dwarves could not always be trusted. But the dwarves have also been done wrong on many dealings with the outside races as well. So, let's just say there is a lot of history.

I am quite new to your channel, but the reason things fall into the camera is the 3D for cinema, so people dodge. I believe u know it and want someone to point it out in comments, so u get more views or whatever. There I am, the answer if needed, or the comment if needed.

I wish people didn't judge The Hobbit through Lord of the Rings eyes. The Hobbit was written as a children's story. Although they share many similarities, they were written for two different audiences. Another great reaction, love how invested you get. And your happy which i think also makes the viewer happy.. contagious and all :)

The dwarves aren't disliked by everybody, they have a rivalry with the elves. They were great allies once, but the feud dates back to one of the greatest jewels ever created, the Silmaril and the necklace the dwarves made for it. It all comes down to greed and jealousy. Also Beorn doesn't hate dwarves like it's portraited in the movie, he's just not very fond of them but he has a grudging respect for them and is willing to help them because they are enemies of the goblins, as he is. Beorn is a skin-changer as it is called in the books and can change into a huge black bear at will.

Yes, Beorn can change into a bear and change back at will..

You are wonderful. Sorry, I don't speak Ang I'm writing a comment with the help of a translator. But I went to your streams, listened to you, put a like and left) Nothing is clear ahha

They were disliked because, of their wealth, and only concerned with themselves and maybe because they were not made by Eru Iluvatar (God) but by the Valar Alue (the Smith ) - (lesser gods who made the earth) of whom Sauron was once a Miair (lesser god) of. Sauron, Gandalf and the Balrog were all Miair to different Valar. Read the Silmarillion, it explains everything.

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If you want to know why they shot the beheading right at the camera, watch your reaction and you will know why they did it.

I'm not going to spoil things for you, but the necromancer wasn't a thing in the books, he is later mentioned to be the reason why Gandalf left them in the book by Tolkien, but he was never actually mentioned in the book, and it probably wasn't him that is assembling an army. Same thing with Legolas, he is implied to have been there by the fact he is Thranduil's son, but he is never mentioned in the Hobbit book, and only is a character in Lord of the Rings. Azog should be dead by now cannonically, and Tauriel is made up.

Im late hére , but fun fact , Gimli the dwarf was too Young to be with them , he was a teenager ...

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All those scenes where objects are closing in on the camera - that is because these movies were filmed in 3D. While the 3D hype is over now and I can very well do without it, it was nonetheless an experience watching all three parts in their 3D version in the cinema when they originally came out.

Your emotions in the last part of the overlord is just superb

He cant understand the spiders, they speak the dark tongue and the ring translate it when he wears it

Dwarves have quite a contentious history with many other races. An age-long, violent and bloody conflict with elves, have fought a few wars against a few peoples of men (such as at one point against the ancestors of the Rohirrim over another dragon's treasure hoard). Beorn however just personally dislikes their materialism and what he considers to be ignorance of the natural world. Dwarves tend naturally to greed more so than others, and the obsession with riches that Thorin's grandfather developed is a common risk with the wealthier dwarf lords, and such dwarves who fall into this have shown to have no scruples with almost any misdeed be it murder, theft or deceit as long as they aquire the wealth they desire, and so many distrust them for this reason. Dwarves also have it against them that they were they only race of the free peoples whose kin fought for Sauron during his first conquests, even though dwarves from Moria contributed with 60,000 men, several of the eastern dwarven clans fought for Mordor just as several kingdoms of men did, like Harad, Khand and Rhûn.

18:42...Is Tauriel there to protect Killi or to bring him and the rest back because they're escaped prisoners?

You are very kind and with your bright smile give light to everyone who sees you.

When you have a stream, I'll just write hello ahaha

Beorn doesnt like dwarves because hes half beast and therefore a lover of animals - which dwarves are not. Dwarves are more ‘technological’, a bit like orcs. The mirkwood was formerly known as the greenwood, but when the ‘necromancer’ moved into the old elf fortress of dol goldur evil began to spread in it, but even the, as beorn says, the elves of mirkwood are wild and not wise like the others. So those elves cause trouble with enchantments in the forest. They dont like anyone which is why they imprison the dwarves but in these movies theres the issue of the jewels belonging to thranduil’s wife as an added reason. But as a general rule, dwarves are stubborn and rude. So no-ones’ too friendly with them. When gandalf refers to ‘the enemy’ he means sauron, which you know by now i guess. The ring is how bilbo understands the spiders - theyre speaking black speech, which is the language of mordor and of evil things.

The Orcs are EVERYONES enemies. So the "elves of the woods" may not like the dwarves...but they'll fight the orcs at all cost. There is MUCH Peter Jackson pulled from obscure parts of the book, and the appendices to fill out this film especially. Tariel is a whole fabrication (i.e., not in the book), but it's nice to see a badass female elf warrior. For that matter Legolas himself was NOT in The Hobbit book. Dwarves are generally NOT liked because they are so rough and focused on only themselves and their wealth. This film illustrates one of the issues lots of folks have with The Hobbit films. There is a LOT more reliance on CGI rather than practical effects (i.e., less Orcs in actual latex body suits, etc). When you watch closely you can tell the difference...the "practical effect" Orcs just seem "more real". I still find these films to be fun...and thrilled you are getting enjoyment out of them. Looking forward to your next installment. Have a GREAT rest of your week. (Love the Middle Earth Tee shirt)

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Hobbits are very close to nature despite being camping in their cosy houses all day long. Contrary to Saruman, Galadriel suspects Sauron of returning to power and asks Gandalf to check on the Nine kings tombs... Obviously, their tombs were desacrated and the corpes reanimaed into Nazgul by then... Because of their rings bound to the One Ring. Tauriel doesn't exist in the book, they added her as a feminine token to add a love story that wasn't there in the first place. They even lied to Evangeline Lilly about the love story (she didn't want to be cast for one so they told her there would be none...) The things going to the camera; yes ten or fifteen years ago was the stupid fashion of bringing back the 3D tech of the thirties... Never worked then, never worked ten years ago either, despite the great effects, it costs too much for what it brings.

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Dwarf greed

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I love that Stephen Colbert is in this series. He knows more about The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit than Peter Jackson admittedly.

When you are done watching this trilogy watch Lord of the Rings again. 😍😍

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smaug is the best thing of this trilogy and benedict cumberbatch naild is voice

Looking forward to the next part

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Dwarf and greed and dont give a fuck about anyone else 😂

No they rsn after them becus the orcs entered elf teretory

Hello. I've looked at all your reactions to Lord of the Rings. This is my favorite trilogy. The best fantasy. I liked that you cried at all the same moments as me.

Actual geography lesson... mountains are never lonely. A single mountain peak in the middle of nowhere is either the center of a meteor impact site, or its a volcano, or its a bit of land remaining after water has eroded away everything else. Actual mountains are typically full continuous ranges caused by tectonic plates colliding.

Please listen, to me, you don't have to react to anything. You really can sing and you have a really nice voice! I ask only that you use your talent to revive old songs! It would not be hard for you to get a few musicians together and re-imagine some Journey songs like Lights If Disturbed can do it, so can you! Just shred the proven paths.

You said we are going to be reacting. I think you've been watching Gollum too much.

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